From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 31 14:35:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2550D106566C for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:35:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0098FC1C for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:35:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o7VEZkvc083026 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:35:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7VEZkOV095210 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:35:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o7VEZjns095209; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:35:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:35:45 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: <20100831143545.GB5913@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4C7CF944.7030709@netfence.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C7CF944.7030709@netfence.it> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96 at email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:35:46 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:35:50 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 31), Andrea Venturoli said: > Suppose I have an executable which I need to invoke repeatedly (e.g. to > run tests in a makefile). This executables spend most of its time loading > (rather than processing), due to the need of several huge shared > libraries. Link your program statically and bypass the dynamic linker completely. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com